Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1887-08-31

The best beef to be had IN town is a
the Central meat market, opposite LIST
National bank.
The recent rains have helped tire
grass wonderfully. The range IS as
fresh and green as IT was ia June.
The old reliable Medicine Lodge
hotel is now conducted by N. W.
Young. a good meal can be obtained
there any day. 1872
! Ticket Coz the Bismar' Grove Fair, ~
Lawrence, over the Southern Kansas
railroad, will be for sale for SS2j for
the round trip from Medicine Lodge.
DR.. Dunn wishes TO state TO his old
patrC MS, and the public generally, that
he is permanently located i'm Medicine
Lodge, and will attend to all calls
promptly. 1911
The City Drug Store, l.. T. Pearson,
proprietor, has several new brands of
new cigars, five centers, that get clear
away with any 10 cent cigar in town.
Try them. )
James b. Eby went TO Kansas City
last Thursday, to meet Mrs. Ely, who
was returning home from a two months
visit To her folks III Ohio. They reach
ed here yesterday.
An effortEs being made TO get night
herd law for Aetna township. A petit
ton asking the commissioners to make
an order to this effect will be presented
at the October meeting.
There is no particular outside show
about the old and popular Medicine
Lodge hotel, but it gets there on a
square meal, every time. Bill Young
Is bOssing the ranch now. l3
Mr.. VIM. Zeiler, commercial tourist
for Kansas City firm, came in last
Friday evening, OH visit to his aunt,
Mrs. w. e.. Musgrove. lie left Mon
day, SO we'll pleased with his visit that
he Will probably come again soon.
Interest in the Sunday evening SER
vices at the grove continues, and the
attendance is very good. Mr.. Sander
son is being congratulated on thinking
of the plan. Until further notice, SER
vices will commence promptly at $50.
The Willing Workers of the Christian
church will lave a "frIed chicken sup
per- in the old postoilice room, in the
Sherlock lis block, on Thursday even
ing, September first. All are cordially
invited. Mrs. Wa!dron Chase, Socre-
tary.
\ letter head was exhibited here the
other day. which read Bent County
Loan Company-SlO0,00O 10 loan on real
estatc--N. Sherlock, president, II. w.
Baytels, secretary, Lamar, Col" IIur-
rail- for Bart, and the Lord have mercy
on Nick!
Prof. Cook, Of jefferson county, who
is conducting the normal institute mere,
stated to the INDEX this week that lie
had never instructed in an institute
where there was better material. lie
thinks that Barber county has reason
to be proud of her teachers.
George W. Fort will leave here in Il
few days, and locate ut Stafford, i'll Stat
ford county, and go into the real estate
and loan business. Mr.. Fort will leave
many friends here, where he has been
engaged i'm business for two years. He
will make friends wherever he may go,
and will prove TO he al accommodating
and a fTu ~ .rant lap,an
Several school districts in this county
have already secured teachers for the
coming term. Miss Ada Lawrence will
teach in Col. Fields neighbOThood,
four miles north of here. Miss Reyn-
olds will teach the school three miles
south Of town, which Miss Lawrence
taught last term, and Miss Minnie
DrySdale will take school near Elm
Mills.
Unless some unlOoked-for event oc-
ours, Judge Stevens will get more votes
than all competitors combined. lie is
n faithful, true and tried official. an
honest, sober and upright man, and the
very best people in Barber county,
without regard to party or past pOliti
cal affiliations, are demanding his cleo
tion. The voice Of the people will be
heard.
Walker T.. Ewing, who had been a
member of the INDEX force for the past
two months, left, last Wednesday, for
Odessa, Mo, where he goes to take
charge OF the business department of
the Democrat. We have known him
from his boyhood, and there is 10 one
more steady and reliable than he. We
wish for him the success his efforts will
certainly merit.
WIN. Martin, of this city, this week
handed US a lot of twigs cut from his
peach and crab trees which showed the
ravages Of "a small worm. 1t had en-
tered the twig at or near the end and
bored down from four to six inches,
completely destroying the heart of the
twig aud killing is. The first evidence
TO be seen of these borers is the dead
ening Of the leaves and bark. The only
way 10 save the tree Is 70 cut oil every
twig affected, for these worms will UNI
dUnbteily enter the body of the tree.
So far rs noticed, they only touch peach
trees and Siberian crab apple trees.
Tie heaviest rain fell here Monday
night that had fallen for two years, and
Tuesday morning the Medicine river
was high ont OF lis banks, higher than
il had been since the flood of 1885. South
of here, on the Kiowa road, the culverts
and small bridges were generally wash
ed out and the same report is expected
from the Sun City country. at this
place tie rain poured down in torrents
for more than two hours, accompanied
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